Senior Analyst Business Systems

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Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing. Be your best at Canada Life.

Individual Insurance Technology (Ins Tech) is an organization providing information technology solutions to Canada Life. In Ins Tech, the Customer is at the center of what we do. Our Ins Tech professionals make a significant contribution to the companies business goals through the effective delivery of value-added services. These services include setting technology direction, project management, analysis, system architecture, software development and the provision of operational support services for our Insurance Solutions business unit.

What You Will Do

Bridge business requirements with systems design through all phases of opportunity ideation or problem resolution and systems enhancement.

Requirements

Work closely with business and leadership to understand business needs, requirements, and strategic opportunities. Working in a team environment, they are responsible for:

• Representing the business’ requirements,
• Defining and designing the business functionality of the system,
• Ensuring that the system meets the defined business requirements.
• Participating and facilitating meetings, walkthroughs, workshops, and reviews of deliverables
• Understanding and defining a strategic vision for key systems based on line of business, their needs, known risks and dependencies in partnership with portfolio solutions architects.
• Applying knowledge to help implement solutions to resolve complex problems or capitalize on new ideas
• Helping to uncover and maximize the business / customer / user value of planned initiatives through facilitation, analysis and modeling techniques.
• Provide support to Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts during design and build phases.
• Direct own work through goal setting, time management and planning to meet project deadlines
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of work to maximize quality, build credibility, and avoid re-work
• Build effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders quickly and confidently, to positively influence outcomes
• Identify and participate in implementing improvement opportunities
• Identify risks and escalate issues in timely manner
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Ideal candidate has 5+ years working with insurance policy administration systems; experience with Ingenium is preferred
• 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst in a Technology delivery environment
• Accreditation in Business Analysis or equivalent credentials/experience.
• Degree in related discipline (Computer Science, Commerce, Business Administration, Management
• Information Systems, etc.) or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Strong knowledge of insurance products and business processes
• Experience in a project environment preferred, with understanding of testing principles and methodologies and commitment to achieving project goals
• Effective at analyzing how product changes affect testing requirements
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Must be self-motivated, organized and able to multi-task in an environment of changing processes and priorities
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communications skills, with the ability to translate complex
• technical subject matter in business terms for executive audiences, succinctly and professionally and to
• translate business requirements into technical instructions for software developer audiences.
• Ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge and skills, and apply creative thinking to solve problems
• Willing to identify what we need to do and take action, rather than wait to be told what to do
• Must be innovative and open to trying new things
  
  

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.

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